Easter egg 003

Easter egg 003

An example of a batik egg painted Easter Egg. Dark turquoise background, burnt brick decorative pattern.
Each egg end features a rosette with a double zig-zag shaped edge and rays radiating from a flower outline at the egg pole inside the rosette. A zig-zag pattern runs along the egg’s minor axis, with a motif of sixteen irregular star shapes one at each outer tip of the zig-zag pattern.
The Easter Egg was made for a Rzeszów region folk and artisan crafts competition held by the Rzeszów Voivodeship National Council Presidium’s Culture Department in 1960.

Exhibit: Easter Egg
Materials: batik painted egg
Dimensions: height 5.7 cm
Made in: 1960
Origin: Męcina Wielka, Gorlice district
Owner: F. Kotula Ethnographic Museum in Rzeszów